Body size is a decisive functional trait in many organisms, especially for phytoplankton,
which span several orders of magnitude in cell volume. Therefore, the analysis of size as a …

Polyploidy is a key mechanism of genome evolution and speciation, particularly in plants.
Many aspects of polyploidy have been elucidated with the tools that have become available …

Biodiversity of phytoplankton is important for ecosystem stability and marine
biogeochemistry. However, the large-scale patterns of diversity are not well understood and …

Microbial activity mediates the fluxes of greenhouse gases. However, in the global models of
the marine and terrestrial biospheres used for climate change projections, typically only …

Prochlorococcus is both the smallest and numerically most abundant photosynthesizing
organism on the planet. While thriving in the warm oligotrophic gyres, Prochlorococcus …

Phytoplankton exhibit diverse physiological responses to temperature which influence their
fitness in the environment and consequently alter their community structure. Here, we …

The history of the Earth has been marked by major ecological transitions, driven by
metabolic innovation, that radically reshaped the composition of the oceans and …

The net balance between photosynthesis and respiration in the surface ocean is a key
regulator of ocean‐atmosphere carbon dioxide (CO2) partitioning, and by extension, Earth's …

Introduction Bivalve aquaculture has direct and indirect effects on plankton communities,
which are highly sensitive to short-term (seasonal, interannual) and long-term climate …

As climate change unravels, ecosystems are facing a warming of the climate and an
increase in extreme heat events that are unprecedented in recent geological history. We …